Their shelters and livelihoods ravaged by the deadly recent cyclone, many women along Odisha's coastline are are so bereft of any hope for the
future that they feel it would have been better to be among the dead.
Sarada Lahangir
meets some of them.

As
Uttarakhand reels in the aftermath of devastating floods, Ammu Joseph underlines the need for greater awareness of the gender dimensions
of such calamities and recognition of the special and diverse needs of women and other disadvantaged sections of society.

Despite years of conflicts and lakhs of people being housed in relief camps, the Assam government is yet to develop a practical
policy of responding to the recurring crises.
Ratna Bharali Talukdar
reports.

Notwithstanding these hellholes called shelters, the state government has been going gung-ho about its swift action to resettle the flood victims in North Karnataka. A visit to one such shed revealed the officials heartless rhetoric writes
Savita Hiremath.

Post October floods in North Karnataka, Dalits find themselves in a greater predicament. A century of struggle for equal rights and worse, fundamental faith in human progress, is at stake, writes Savita Hiremath.

Sloppy and biased surveys of damaged houses and paltry compensation have made the flood victims in Koppal and Bellary districts run from pillar to post to get what is rightfully theirs, writes
Savita Hiremath.

North Karnataka's flood victims feel that it was relatively easier to run away from raging waters than dealing now with a corrupt bureaucracy and eking out a livelihood fraught with imponderables.
Savita Hiremath
investigates.

When Neelam Devi and her children stepped into their courtyard, the sight that greeted them was
a painful reminder of the Kosi river calamity that had forced them to leave in the first
place.
Manisha Prakash
reports.

Consent for relocation given by Jamni village in the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra was obtained under duress. Villagers
protest against the manner in which the gram sabha had proceeded.
Aparna Pallavi
investigates.

In late August, the Jabalpur bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court ordered a judicial inquiry on allegations of large scale corruption in distribution of compensation to families affected by Sardar Sarovar/Narmada Project.
Himanshu Upadhyaya
tells the continuing story of a scam.

A large number of Ban Gujjar tribal families remaining within the Rajaji National Park are facing constant harassment from the state forest department. Their rehabilitation is mired in red tape.
Aparna Pallavi
reports.

Land acquisition from Vidarbha farmers for irrigation projects is become
a case of cure worse than the disease. The new projects are being commissioned
over the prime minister's relief package.
Jaideep Hardikar
digs deeper.